The tornadoes of sudden cardiac arrest

Sudden Cardiac Arrest

Sudden cardiac arrest during sports.

Exercise can trigger an acute cardiac event which may precipitate sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). On the other hand, exercise is important for physical fitness and prevention of cardiovascular disease, and the medical community should therefore inform the general public of the health benefits of sports and exercise. At the same time, the public are exposed to alarmist mass media coverage of athlet...

Prediction and prevention of sudden cardiac arrest.

1692 CMAJ, October 18, 2011, 183(15) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Major advances have been made in understanding the causes of and treatments for cardiovascular disease, and mortality related to such disease has been reduced. However, the incidence of sudden cardiac arrest has remained almost un changed for decades, generally affecting younger people (mean age about 65 y...

The Aassociation between Pre-Cardiac Arrest Comorbidity and Unsuccessful Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Patients with Cardiac Arrest

Background and Objective: Patients suffering from cardiac arrest (CA) have poor prognosis and survival. The association of pre-arrest comorbidity with unsuccessful resuscitation in patients with CA is far from clear. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between pre-existing comorbidity and unsuccessful resuscitation following CA in Iranian patients. Materials and Met...

Founder Mutation Genotyping and Sudden Cardiac Arrest

After the Human Genome Project, a resulting explosion of genetic information has led to the identification of thousands of new disease-susceptibility genes. This has created the dream of genetic medicine, or so-called precision medicine, where the identification of pathogenic mutations would lead to the early diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. This ideal has no more important impl...